So Persona 5 has some interesting costume-and-battle-music DLC going for it in Japan; so far, seems to be DLC based on Persona 2: Innocent Sin, Persona 3, Persona 4 and Shin Megami Tensei: if… (what you could call Persona 0, basically). Further data on the disc reveals there's also DLC for Persona 1, Catherine, Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha and Shin Megami Tensei IV hidden but not yet unlockable by normal means.
Most of the music seems to be straight from the original games, but the SMT: if… track is a hard-rockin' remix of the PSX-version-exclusive "Nemesis" (later also used for the Amala Network Battle theme in SMT3 Nocturne), and it is lovely.

This post has been edited by Herm the Germ: 07 October 2016 - 02:40 PM

Well that kinda makes the "take your heart" pseudo Valentines day special edition look a bit wonky in it's branding.

Not happy, I couldn't give a rats butt about Japanese audio, I hope it's not being delayed for that, if it's being delayed for that and it's also DLC, someone needs a punch. Release the main game first and they pump out that JP audio in April for the people that just like the sound of Japanese, but can't be bothered to learn it properly.

So Persona 5 is out, though I managed to get a copy last Friday thanks to the store I pre-ordered the game at breaking street date. I've played for about 11 hours now, some impressions:

+ It was already seen in the trailers, but the style and presentation is amazing.
+ The first dungeon at least already is a lot nicer than any of Persona 3 or 4's dungeons imo.
+ Tonally it feels more than different enough from both Persona 3 and 4. Some interesting themes going on for sure.
+ The characters are all pretty good so far

+- English voice acting felt hit or miss at first, but I eventually got used to all of the voices, at least so far. If you don't like the English voices then you can always switch to the Japanese voices anyway.

- The English writing can feel more like an awkward fan translation than like something handled by a good localization team at times. (EDIT: Some examples of what I'm talking about here) Generally while it's not terrible, it's far from Atlus USA's best localization work. It's not as good as, say, Persona 4's or Yakuza 0's localization.
- Dancing All Night confirmed canon

Also: if you're one of those people who complains about video games getting political, you might want to skip this one.